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            <title>Outcomes-based bonds as Africa's most powerful tool for solving the water crisis</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Across the African continent, water infrastructure is under increasing strain. The compounding pressures of accelerating urbanisation, decaying legacy systems, climate change and chronic underinvestment in public infrastructure over decades mean that both the public and private sectors must urgently mobilise towards solutions. The African Development Bank estimates that the continent's water and sanitation infrastructure financing gap runs to tens of billions of dollars annually. Already constrained public budgets, development finance institutions and multilateral lenders cannot close that gap alone. Private capital markets, with their scale and appetite for yield, represent the most significant untapped source of infrastructure finance on the continent.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The publication of South Africa's Draft National AI Policy (Draft Policy) marks a turning point for organisations that develop, deploy or rely on artificial intelligence (AI). Beyond signalling the emergence of formal AI regulation, the Draft Policy introduces new expectations around governance, ethics, accountability and sector-specific oversight. The Draft Policy, published by the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT), states its underlying policy imperative as the development of a comprehensive, inclusive and ethically grounded national policy that ensures responsible innovation, protects the public interest and advances socio-economic transformation.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sanctions, increasingly deployed as instruments of political and ideological signalling, have risen by 346% since 2017. Commercial parties are increasingly finding themselves unable to perform contractual obligations, not through any fault of their own, but by operation of state-imposed legal prohibitions. The question that follows is as deceptively simple as it is legally complex: can a party invoke force majeure when sanctions render performance impossible? Force majeure has long served as a contractual safety valve, receiving major airtime during the height of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, excusing non-performance where an extraordinary event beyond a party's control prevents the discharge of obligations. We now face another unprecedented event: the dramatic and ever-changing escalation of geopolitical tensions, marked by sweeping sanctions regimes, where the application of this doctrine to sanctions-induced impossibility is far from straightforward.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's been a challenging period for social media platforms. The past year has seen numerous developments to the laws govern social media platforms globally. First, Australia has led the way in introducing age-related legislation to regulate the use of social media, with other countries adopting the same approach. Then, just over two weeks ago, Meta and Google were on the receiving end of adverse judgments with profound implications for their business models.  The verdicts issued in the United States cases of Kaley G.M. v Meta and Google, and the State of New Mexico v Meta and Others, if upheld on appeal, could dramatically change the way platforms operate.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Picture a rainy Wednesday morning in Sandton, sometime in the near future. A claims handler opens their laptop, and right away, things move much faster than they used to. For every new email, the company's artificial intelligence system (AI) has already drafted a suggested reply. The inbox is lighter too, because a public chatbot, which has been trained on policy wordings and is constantly improving, now handles most client and broker queries. Need a meeting? An AI assistant automatically ...]]></description>
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            <title>New Africa virtual assets regulatory guide launched through Pan-African legal collaboration</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new continent-wide regulatory guide mapping virtual asset frameworks across 23 African jurisdictions has been released, offering one of the most comprehensive and collaborative analyses of virtual asset regulation to date. Developed by Webber Wentzel in partnership with leading law firms across Africa, the 2026 Africa Virtual Assets Regulatory Guide provides comparative insights into how countries are approaching digital asset oversight, licensing, anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism compliance, blockchain adoption and anticipated regulatory reforms for 2026–2027.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Water scarcity is one of South Africa's most urgent infrastructure challenges. Climate change, population growth and decades of underinvestment have created a water security crisis that can no longer be deferred. Against this backdrop, South Africa's first outcomes-based water bond marks a significant development in sustainable finance and in the legal frameworks governing impact-driven infrastructure investment.]]></description>
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            <title>Rethinking legal and institutional frameworks to advance impact investing</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 2026 Budget Speech delivered by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in February 2026 has in balance been referred to as a “good news” budget by the commentariat. At a macro level, the strides made toward fiscal consolidation and the raising of the VAT level for small-to-medium businesses are highly positive developments for key socio-economic measures, including employment. Government has been highly consistent in emphasising the importance of small-to-medium businesses as part of its overall national economic growth strategy. Page 39 of the National Development Plan 2030 explicitly states “that most new jobs are likely to be sourced in domestic-orientated businesses, and in growing small- and medium-sized firms.”]]></description>
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